Re: Re: Re: According to Ivan, the secret ZA phone-homeserver is located at 127.0.0.1 [was Re: Re:Re: ZoneAlarm phones home]

["Ivan ." <ivanhec () gmail com>]

nice personal attacks, a great display of your intellect.

> My first post in this thread claimed that Cringely was spreading FUD, and
> had provided no evidence to back up his claim.

No your first post was this

> Without seeing the content of these packets, I don't see how Cringely can
> claim to know whether there's anything spyware or not about it.  There is no
> *evidence* for his claim.  I'm always suspicious of people who claim to have
> observed 'spyware phoning home' but who are then completely unable to give
> any details about the contents or destination of the packets, since it means
> that they are claiming something that they don't actually know at all.

His only claim was that zonealarm "phones home" even when all the
communication options are disabled. I can't find any claim of spyware
as you indicated. His claim of a phone home bug has been vindicated by
Zonelabs/Checkpoint's response to the list and the admission of the
bug.

Like I said before, it's up to the people on the list to decide if
this is a issue for them or not. Not for a arrogant fool like you to
force his opinion onto people.

go ride your high horse over to letters () infoworld com
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